63.2-1213 - Final order of adoption. - Virginia Statutes

§ 63.2-1213. Final order of adoption.

After consideration of the report made pursuant to § 63.2-1212 or aspermitted pursuant to § 63.2-1210, if the circuit court is satisfied that thebest interests of the child will be served thereby, the circuit court shallenter the final order of adoption. However, a final order of adoption shallnot be entered until information has been furnished by the petitioner incompliance with § 32.1-262 unless the circuit court, for good cause shown,finds the information to be unavailable or unnecessary. No circuit courtshall deny a petitioner a final order of adoption for the sole reason thatthe child was placed in the physical custody of the petitioner by a personnot authorized to make such placements pursuant to § 63.2-1200. An attestedcopy of every final order of adoption shall be forwarded, by the clerk of thecircuit court in which it was entered, to the Commissioner and to thechild-placing agency that placed the child or to the local director, in caseswhere the child was not placed by an agency.

(Code 1950, § 63-356; 1962, c. 603; 1964, c. 429; 1968, c. 578, § 63.1-230;1975, c. 364; 1981, c. 318; 1988, c. 431; 2000, c. 830, § 63.1-219.20; 2002,c. 747; 2006, cc. 825, 848; 2007, cc. 606, 623.)